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#5. Hope isn't true: Potential backstage Royal Rumble plans

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Dave Meltzer revealed on Wrestling Observer Live that the backstage plan is likely to have 10 spots for each of the three brands. We don't believe this is a good idea. He also revealed that WWE could potentially be stopping Takeover events on PPV weekends.

Well, the idea for the Royal Rumble, and this was a while ago, but the plan was Royal Rumble, men’s and women’s, there will be 30 spots, 10 spots to RAW, 10 spots to SmackDown, 10 spots to NXT. That was the plan.

I mean I can’t imagine the Royal Rumble being won by an NXT Star to challenge at a takeover, I mean you could do that if you wanted to but I would expect that a RAW and SmackDown wrestler would win so then you’d have the championship match at WrestleMania, but, you could also have the NXT individual challenge for the NXT title at WrestleMania because they’re not doing the Takeover events on PPV weekends anymore.

So it doesn’t look like there is going to be a Takeover at WrestleMania weekend. So you could say, if an NXT star wins the Royal Rumble, they will get a Championship match against the NXT Champion at WrestleMania.

We hope neither of these rumors is true because 10 spots for NXT feels a bit too much as they already have enough stars on both RAW and SmackDown. Also, stopping NXT Takeover events on PPV weekends will only take the spotlight away from the brand.